Opinion

The woman who aided, abetted and abused alongside Jeffrey Epstein should be in prison until 2037 – at least. But as Trump allies flirt with pardons and political revenge, could she go free?

Argentinians like what their president has done on inflation. The problem is that plenty of them hate everything else about him

From San Sebastian to Copenhagen, one train ticket allows travel in 33 countries, for all age groups. But don’t dare think that you can just hop on, hop off

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In Iceland, where the boundaries of what’s possible are often pushed, Thermal Beets is ditching the harmful plastic ordinarily used to make records

Education is not a luxury in emergencies; it is a lifeline but the lack of it in the Rohingya camps is a crisis of will, not resources

The vast landmass has the oil, gas, metals and water that China craves – and Moscow may be too weak to stop them

With more and more people moving to the cities, a shortfall of workers in the countryside means authentic Turkish carpets are a vanishing commodity

The days of La Dolce Vita are long gone – people no longer aspire to classic elegance

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Labour’s new asylum scheme is at least a start. But it leaves thousands in limbo and does little to silence Reform’s toxic mantras

Yvette Cooper must reveal the ‘secret’ reasons for proscribing the group, or tell the police to stop arresting supporters

The resignation of housing minister Rushanara Ali shows Starmer’s government mired in the same ethical scandal it once condemned

Right wingers claiming that ‘woke’ has killed the galleries are indulging in wishful thinking

Only more centralisation can save the EU from fragmentation, irrelevance - and China

The PM is floundering at home but abroad, he may have quietly saved Britain’s global relevance

The two nations have been fighting border skirmishes since the sixties. But a new issue threatens something much worse

Thanks to Trump, the convicted sex offender is getting more consideration than her and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ever did

The president’s eagerness to distort economic facts is a sure-fire way to follow Greece and Argentina into crisis

A belligerent and terrifyingly effective liar, Leavitt isn’t just Trump’s press secretary – she’s the very embodiment of his media strategy. But signs of strain are beginning to show...

The new movement is claiming 700,000 signups – and a fair proportion of those will have a very different view of the EU than its joint-leader

Once upon a time the internet was going to give a voice to the marginalised. Now it seems right wingers are manipulating the attention economy for their own ends

The city is quite obscenely beautiful, and the people are as warm as the weather

We can’t be sure that, even if life were staring us in the face on Europa, we’d recognise it as such

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From petty corruption to genocide, the charges continue to mount. But the Israeli prime minister’s actions since October 7, 2023, show he is determined to escape the shadow of justice

The silly season is now permanent as UK politics is overwhelmed by the emotional, the irrational and the plain ridiculous

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